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4 unusual facts about Henry Bennet


Edward Nicholas

Nicholas was soon retired, much against his own wishes, in favour of Charles's favourite Henry Bennet.

Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington

In March 1657 he was knighted, and the same year was sent as Charles's agent to Madrid, where he remained, endeavouring to obtain assistance for the royal cause, till after the Restoration.

Another object of jealousy to Arlington was Sir William Temple, who achieved a great popular success in 1668 by the conclusion of the Triple Alliance; Arlington endeavoured to procure his removal to Madrid, and entered with alacrity into Charles's plans for destroying the whole policy embodied in the treaty, and for making terms with France.

William Coventry

Six weeks before Coventry's fall, the conference between Charles, James, Arlington, Clifford and Arundel had taken place, which resulted a year and a half later in the Treaty of Dover.


Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon

He attacked Buckingham and Arlington.

James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy

Henry Bennet lauded him in 1561, mentioning also his patronage of Eliseus Bomelius, and the same year Jean Veron dedicated to him an anti-papal tract.


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